Duh.
this is only duh to someone here./. readers, myself included, seem to forget that we are not the normal crowd. Most users out there couldnt tell you what a port is, let alone why their apps that need to access said mysterious ports dont work now.
it actually seems you missed the point. he's partnered with trigem for example. which means his hard work and dedication payed off more than engineer bean counting that you are so arrogant about. Also, he's an A.I. professor. Robots, my dear HotNeedleOfInquiry, require quite a bit of ability to work on at any meaningful level. You simply cannot make a cheap, reliable product *and* mass-produce it unless you've got the experience and talent to do that.
as I said before, maybe he does And it's been my experience that university professors are about as far away from that skill set as you'll find. experiance is a wonderful thing, but its anecdotal (which as an engineer you should understand makes for flawed conclusions), just because your experaince says something doesnt mean its true
dont get me wrong here, a number of people in my family (including my father, uncle, grandfather) are engineers or have engineering backgrounds. I'm not nocking engineers. Please dont tell me however that someone without the "engineering qualifications" is simply unable to do something that an engineer can. School and a degree arent magic. Its the person that matters, and people can learn engineering skills without going to school for it.
even worse, its appropriately powered by postnuke software. I'd say that a slashdotting counts as a site nuking, so the software is appropriately named. Unfortunately, if the intended purpose is allow a site from running post-nuking, the developers aught to go back to the drawing board......
I play it online on my main computer sometimes. but when I'm on the old POS I'm talking about I dont trust its stability enough for an online game. So I just play against bots.
I actually do this when I play UT2004 on one of my old boxes that's still running windows. Of course I also disable the network connection when I do this and restart the firewall when I'm done....
believe it or not, I actually RTFA that you linked to...
the issue under discussion there isnt really can one own a color, the article is misleading in that respect.
the issue in that case is that the company Orange is claiming that "its rival having a similar logo to its own will cause confusion among its customers and damage its business.". This is a very different claim from saying it owns the color orange. The issue that easyMobile and Orange are fighting over is no different from any other case involving simillar names,logos,etc between rival companies.
Neither company is claiming to own orange (the color), they are arguing over whether easyMobile's symbols are close enough to that of Orange's to make it confusing and misleading to the customer. This includes the use of the color orange In this context.
via USB 1.1 (read ~600KB/s, write ~300)
uhhhh... are you sure about those numbers? USB 1.1 is SLOW, ~12, not 600. even usb 2.0 is only ~480 (and remem, since its usb thats peak transfer). The speed you're quoting would sound better on a firewire 800 device (which would actually be much faster)
The sound of crashing webservers is always music to my ears... You know, that satisfying squeel as the machine hits a STOP error from a overheated cpu... such a wonderful sound... Assuming its not mine of course.
While Debian is my favorite distro and I run testing as my primary desktop, my one problem with it has always been setting up ALSA drivers. On the current setup I have now, I just stuck with the OSS drivers, setting up ALSA was too much of a pain in the a$$. anyone know if the stable release of sarge will include better alsa-driver compatability?
0) Protect all lawyers from danger:
others must read:
1)Swerve the public trust, if not in conflict with law 0
2)neglect the innocent if not in conflict with 0 or 1
3)uproot the law if not in conflict with 0, 1, or 2
Apple doesnt make (much) money on itunes anyway, its a way of selling iPods. That being so I'v never understood why they've not licenses their FairPlay DRM. The only reason I've ever been able to think of is that they're afraid that if they do, someone will make abetter iPod. However, thats why the free market exists. More competition will make the iPod better because Apple will have to compete more; and if the iPod stays good people will continue to buy iPods no matter where they get their music.
final opinion, this could be a blessing for apple if they welcome it, or a curse if they dig in their heels. --Aaron
this guys blog is now dead, or near to it. to paraphrase:
"the blog is dead, we have killed the blog"
mirror anyone?
hmmmmmmmm..... thinking about that misquote for a sec, if we slashdotted god, would it be possible to mirror him/her/it? Just imagine it, a whole backup RAID universe because everyone on slashdot began praying at once......
yeah, anyway, anyone want to set up a mirror please?
this is only true if you read on the gaming section only.... besides you forgot linux, most linux stories get more posts than gaming ones as far as I can see... anyways, your comment was basically a troll anyway, and hear I am feeding it. ah well, such is life.
look, way back when, the monolithic phone company in the states and canada was Bell. It swallowed other companies, gre too big, got broken up by the government into "baby bells". Then Bell Atlantic merged and became Verizon. Now its a bigger company. FOr that matter, huge companies like duetsch bank for example are always buying new companies and spinning off other ones. Most businesses that succeed are cyclical, going through large and small phases. Give it time and you'll see growth of individual tech companies again.
if we got flying cars that would make this technology even more important, three dimensional traffic promises to be even more complicated than two. If you want an example, rent "The Fifth Element". Or, for a real world example, take a look at traffic control for airplanes. Multiply that by a million or more and thats what you'll get with 3d traffic
"Computer control or not, I don't want another guy's car 7" from my bumper at 70 km/h..."
Now wheres the fun in that eh? dont want that sense of adrenaline running through your system? the pumping of energy that comes from dangerously living on the edge! You'll have no fun in life with an attitude like that, go play in traffic!:-P
Slashdot Mirror
I can do this with my laptop however......
Duh. this is only duh to someone here. /. readers, myself included, seem to forget that we are not the normal crowd. Most users out there couldnt tell you what a port is, let alone why their apps that need to access said mysterious ports dont work now.
it actually seems you missed the point. he's partnered with trigem for example. which means his hard work and dedication payed off more than engineer bean counting that you are so arrogant about. Also, he's an A.I. professor. Robots, my dear HotNeedleOfInquiry, require quite a bit of ability to work on at any meaningful level.
You simply cannot make a cheap, reliable product *and* mass-produce it unless you've got the experience and talent to do that.
as I said before, maybe he does
And it's been my experience that university professors are about as far away from that skill set as you'll find.
experiance is a wonderful thing, but its anecdotal (which as an engineer you should understand makes for flawed conclusions), just because your experaince says something doesnt mean its true
dont get me wrong here, a number of people in my family (including my father, uncle, grandfather) are engineers or have engineering backgrounds. I'm not nocking engineers. Please dont tell me however that someone without the "engineering qualifications" is simply unable to do something that an engineer can. School and a degree arent magic. Its the person that matters, and people can learn engineering skills without going to school for it.
even worse, its appropriately powered by postnuke software. I'd say that a slashdotting counts as a site nuking, so the software is appropriately named. Unfortunately, if the intended purpose is allow a site from running post-nuking, the developers aught to go back to the drawing board......
I play it online on my main computer sometimes. but when I'm on the old POS I'm talking about I dont trust its stability enough for an online game. So I just play against bots.
I actually do this when I play UT2004 on one of my old boxes that's still running windows. Of course I also disable the network connection when I do this and restart the firewall when I'm done....
believe it or not, I actually RTFA that you linked to...
the issue under discussion there isnt really can one own a color, the article is misleading in that respect.
the issue in that case is that the company Orange is claiming that "its rival having a similar logo to its own will cause confusion among its customers and damage its business.". This is a very different claim from saying it owns the color orange. The issue that easyMobile and Orange are fighting over is no different from any other case involving simillar names,logos,etc between rival companies.
Neither company is claiming to own orange (the color), they are arguing over whether easyMobile's symbols are close enough to that of Orange's to make it confusing and misleading to the customer. This includes the use of the color orange In this context.
--Aaron
point taken, didnt see the units. thanks for the correction --Aaron
via USB 1.1 (read ~600KB/s, write ~300)
uhhhh... are you sure about those numbers? USB 1.1 is SLOW, ~12, not 600. even usb 2.0 is only ~480 (and remem, since its usb thats peak transfer). The speed you're quoting would sound better on a firewire 800 device (which would actually be much faster)
"look upwards and share the wonders I have seen"
google cache has been posted
since everything is computerized these days, and the /. effect is well established, just post a link here to the server they're stored on....
The sound of crashing webservers is always music to my ears... You know, that satisfying squeel as the machine hits a STOP error from a overheated cpu... such a wonderful sound... Assuming its not mine of course.
While Debian is my favorite distro and I run testing as my primary desktop, my one problem with it has always been setting up ALSA drivers. On the current setup I have now, I just stuck with the OSS drivers, setting up ALSA was too much of a pain in the a$$. anyone know if the stable release of sarge will include better alsa-driver compatability?
0) Protect all lawyers from danger:
others must read:
1)Swerve the public trust, if not in conflict with law 0
2)neglect the innocent if not in conflict with 0 or 1
3)uproot the law if not in conflict with 0, 1, or 2
Apple doesnt make (much) money on itunes anyway, its a way of selling iPods. That being so I'v never understood why they've not licenses their FairPlay DRM. The only reason I've ever been able to think of is that they're afraid that if they do, someone will make abetter iPod. However, thats why the free market exists. More competition will make the iPod better because Apple will have to compete more; and if the iPod stays good people will continue to buy iPods no matter where they get their music.
final opinion, this could be a blessing for apple if they welcome it, or a curse if they dig in their heels.
--Aaron
this guys blog is now dead, or near to it.
to paraphrase:
"the blog is dead, we have killed the blog"
mirror anyone?
hmmmmmmmm..... thinking about that misquote for a sec, if we slashdotted god, would it be possible to mirror him/her/it? Just imagine it, a whole backup RAID universe because everyone on slashdot began praying at once......
yeah, anyway, anyone want to set up a mirror please?
this is only true if you read on the gaming section only.... besides you forgot linux, most linux stories get more posts than gaming ones as far as I can see... anyways, your comment was basically a troll anyway, and hear I am feeding it. ah well, such is life.
its what happens.
look, way back when, the monolithic phone company in the states and canada was Bell. It swallowed other companies, gre too big, got broken up by the government into "baby bells". Then Bell Atlantic merged and became Verizon. Now its a bigger company. FOr that matter, huge companies like duetsch bank for example are always buying new companies and spinning off other ones. Most businesses that succeed are cyclical, going through large and small phases. Give it time and you'll see growth of individual tech companies again.
you're dead!!
no I'm not....
yes you are...
no I'm not...
etc
isnt there actually a stroy placed between 2 of the original 3 movies....
if we got flying cars that would make this technology even more important, three dimensional traffic promises to be even more complicated than two. If you want an example, rent "The Fifth Element". Or, for a real world example, take a look at traffic control for airplanes. Multiply that by a million or more and thats what you'll get with 3d traffic
"Computer control or not, I don't want another guy's car 7" from my bumper at 70 km/h..."
:-P
Now wheres the fun in that eh? dont want that sense of adrenaline running through your system? the pumping of energy that comes from dangerously living on the edge! You'll have no fun in life with an attitude like that, go play in traffic!
what we need are still-suits, y'know, from dune. filtering all the body's water
now the food really can be piss-pot poor
nasa's sys admin: houston, our servers have a problem....